In a Milwaukee shed, William Harley and Arthur Davidson build three motorcycles. It’s 1903, the two men are in their early 20s, and the shed is behind Harley’s childhood home.
Thomas Trapp and Matthias Meier are exhibiting 60 motorcycles in a museum in Bad Homburg. The year is 2023, the two men are in their mid-60s and will soon be in their mid-50s, and the museum used to be a car dealership.
Why are 120 years of Harley-Davidson celebrated not only at the company headquarters in Wisconsin, but also with an exhibition in the Central Garage car museum in the Taunus? The answer is probably: passion. The organizers of the exhibition, who also own the “Harley Factory” in Frankfurt-Fechenheim, share this with many in the Rhine-Main area. The American GIs infected a number of Germans there with enthusiasm for the motorcycle brand.